[CLUE-Tech] red hat install freezes

[Adam Bultman]

I've had that once;  it was with a dual 400 MHz that had a bad
motherboard.  What chipset is the motherboard? Some chipsets simply aren't
supported and you'll run into problems.  However, you might check your
cdrom setup and your video card. You might try the non-graphical setup,
too.


On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Jason S. Friedman wrote:

> Strange problem here.
>
> I have a 400Mhz PII with 6.5G drive and 256MB of RAM.  It has Win98 on it.  I
> used FIPS to split the drive in half -- worked beautifully, Windows still
> "works".
>
> I tried installing Red Hat 7.3 from CD.  This is the same set of 3 CDs I used
> to successfully do a full install on another box.
>
> I partitioned the remaining space on the hard drive into 256MB swap, 48MB
> /boot, and the remainder (~3GB) into /.  I answered all the questions
> (selecting the workstation option), and the installation begins, but it
> hangs.  Sometimes it hangs at the "installing image phase".  Sometimes it
> hangs in the middle of installing a package.  One time I made it all the way
> to the insertion of the second disk, but it hung shortly thereafter.  I have
> tried checking the drives for bad sectors, and tried without the check.
> After 10 tries and failures, I'm about to give up, but thought I might
> solicit some feedback first.
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